World Business Briefing | Europe: Deadline For Microsoft Extended

Published: March 27, 2007

The deadline for Microsoft to reply to a new charge sheet brought by the European Commission has been extended to April 23 from April 3, a spokesman for the European Union said. The extension, granted at Microsoft's request, was made by the hearing officer dealing with the case, the spokesman said. The commission has charged that Microsoft was unjustified in seeking payment from rivals for interoperability information so that their servers would work properly with its products.